Tuesday, 6 January 2015

'The Kid and the Wolf'

'The Kid and the Wolf' an illustration by John Vernon Lord in Aesop's Fables,

Jonathan Cape, 1984, page 6.

The text:

The Kid on the Roof of a House and
the Wolf

A KID standing
on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by: and
immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said: “Sirrah!
I hear thee: yet it is not thou who
mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing."

Moral: The
advantage of time and place often emboldens the weak to defy the strong.